Category Archives: Community

Posts about getting involved in the software development community

IndyNDA – Testing Code From The Pit Of Despair

It’s the second week of February so if you read this blog with any frequency you know what that means.  That’s right, IndyNDA is this Thursday (9 February)!  This month we’re fortunate to have Phil Japikse returning to discuss testing … Continue reading

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IndyNDA – Panel Discussion on Technical Screening

The January IndyNDA meeting is this Thursday!  Join us for a panel discussion on technical screening.  Mark Huebner will moderate the discussion with our panelists including Ed Herceg (Robert Half Technology), Dale Brubaker (Interactive Intelligence), and yours truly.  Audience participation is … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a report for this blog’s activity in 2011.  It’s pretty cool to watch my little part of the Web grow.  I already have a few posts and talks in the works for this year … Continue reading

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Milestone Reached!

I’ve been somewhat serious about keeping this site fresh since about March of 2010.  Although I don’t post as frequently as I’d like I’ve still managed to write over 100 articles covering a variety of topics like LINQ, the Task … Continue reading

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[AgileIndy] Effective Retrospectives

Early last week my wife and I had an exchange that went something like this: Esther: Did you know that AgileIndy is meeting on Tuesday evening? Me: [blank stare] Me: [silence] Me: I didn’t know there was an AgileIndy! Naturally I … Continue reading

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I Survived My First GiveCamp!

I did it!  I made it through my first GiveCamp!  For the benefit of those not familiar with GiveCamp it’s a weekend-long event where technologists donate their time to provide software solutions to non-profit organizations that otherwise could not afford … Continue reading

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October Speaking Engagement – Indy TFS

I’ll be presenting Web performance and load testing in Visual Studio 2010 to the Indy TFS user group on October 5, 2011. In this talk we’ll explore some of the basic test management capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 before diving in to building and executing both Web performance and load tests. Continue reading

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Giving Back

This post marks a milestone for me.  When I started this site nearly seven years ago I had no idea what I was doing.  Before I got serious about blogging in about a year and a half ago I had … Continue reading

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Speaking in Fort Wayne

If you missed my Parallel Programming in .NET 4 talk at IndyNDA on June 9th you now have another chance!  I’ll be giving the same presentation to the .NET Users of Fort Wayne (NUFW) on August 9, 2011 at 6:00 … Continue reading

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June Speaking Engagement – IndyNDA

I’ll be speaking at the 126th meeting of IndyNDA. In this session I’ll cover Parallel Programming in .NET 4 and as a bonus show some of the features included in the Visual Studio Async CTP.  I hope to see you there! Date/Time: 6/9/2011 … Continue reading

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